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Artists›René Magritte

René Magritte

Belgian, 1898–1967

WA-00000084

Lessines, Belgium

PaintingSurrealism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

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Publications Referenced

100%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ7836

MoMA

Field Verification (7 fields)

6 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%✓
DeceasedWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
Death yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
LocationArtsy + Wikidata· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy + Unknown· 85%✓
WebsiteWikidata· 92%✓
BiographyGallery Generic + Unknown· 72%

Source Registry (6)

Theholehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/rene-magritte
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/rene-magritte
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/rene-magritte
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3692
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/rene-magritte
Tier 1 · Institutional85%
Wikidata Patch
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for René Magritte yet.

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Surrealism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tate Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (40)

As You Will Like It

1967 · Etching in black on buff wove paper, laid down on white wove paper

Plate/primary support: 19.7 × 15 cm (7 13/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 27.9 × 21.3 cm (11 × 8 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Baucis Landscape (Paysage de Baucis)

1966 · Etching

plate: 8 15/16 x 6 3/4" (22.7 x 17.2 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11" (38 x 28 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Thought Which Sees

1965 · Pencil on paper

15 3/4 x 11 3/4" (40.0 x 29.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Tune and Also the Words

1964 · Gouache over traces of graphite on cream wove paper

36.2 × 54.8 cm (14 5/16 × 21 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Indiscreet Jewels ( Les bijoux indiscrets )

1963 · Lithograph

composition: 9 3/16 x 11 7/8" (23.4 x 30.2 cm); sheet: 12 5/8 x 15 7/8" (32 x 40.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Perspective

1963 · Crayon on paper

14 1/8 x 10 5/8" (35.9 x 26.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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La Folie Almayer ou L'Arbre Rose

1963 · etching and aquatint

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Banquet

1958 · Oil on canvas

97.3 × 130.3 cm (38 1/4 × 51 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Night in Pisa (La nuit de Pise)

1958 · Oil on canvas

38 1/2 × 50 3/4 in. (97.8 × 128.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Memory of a Voyage

1955 · Oil on canvas

63 7/8 x 51 1/4" (162.2 x 130.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Empire of Light, II

1950 · Oil on canvas

31 x 39" (78.8 x 99.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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The Eternally Obvious

1948 · Oil on canvas mounted on board

Overall: 78 in. × 24 in. × 1 3/8 in. (198.1 × 61 × 3.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Le mal de mer (Seasickness)

1947 · Oil on canvas

54 × 65 cm (21 1/4 × 25 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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World Tour

1945 · oil on board

Unframed: 23.9 x 32.8 cm (9 7/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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The Human Condition

1945 · watercolor, crayon over graphite, ink and gouache

Sheet: 42.2 x 32.2 cm (16 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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The Legend of the Centuries

1945 · watercolor and gouache

Sheet: 41.7 x 32.4 cm (16 7/16 x 12 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Utopia

1945 · watercolor and gouache

Sheet: 32.1 x 41.8 cm (12 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Balcony

1944 · Red chalk with stumping on cream wove paper

44.5 × 36.5 cm (17 9/16 × 14 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Homesickness

1943 · Watercolor and gouache, over touches of graphite, on cream wove paper

45.5 × 35.1 cm (17 15/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Woman-Bottle)

1943 · Oil on glass bottle

37.7 × 7.6 cm (14 3/4 × 3 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed)

1938 · Oil on canvas

147 × 98.7 cm (57 7/8 × 38 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Future of Statues

1937 · Oil paint on plaster

object: 330 x 165 x 203 mm

Tate

The Spirit of Geometry

1937 · Gouache on paper

support: 375 x 292 mm frame: 555 x 455 x 33 mm

Tate

The White Race

1937 · Oil on canvas

81 × 60 cm (31 7/8 × 23 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (5)

40 published of 52 catalogued · 38 with image

MoMA
12 publishedof 24 catalogued22 img
Art Institute Chicago
11 published11 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published
Tate
5 published5 img
The Met
5 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

The Spirit of Geometry
1937 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Human Condition
1945 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
La Folie Almayer ou L'Arbre Rose
1963 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Future of Statues
1937 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Legend of the Centuries
1945 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
World Tour
1945 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Annunciation
1930 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Utopia
1945 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Man with a Newspaper
1928 · Tate · 1 prov
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The Reckless Sleeper
1928 · Tate · 1 prov
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Images

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Influence2

Giorgio de ChiricoinfluenceNeo Rauchinfluence

Peers & Context1

Salvador Dalícontemporary

Movements1

Surrealism

Collections9

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Tate Phillips

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Gagosian

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Tate

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Background

Education

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts - École supérieure des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles

Visual Arts

Network

Related Artists

Salvador Dalí

Painting

contemporary

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Solo Exhibition René Magritte

1994